Road crashes in Walsall

14,499 recorded collisions since 2000.

Walsall has recorded 14,499 road collisions since 2000, 153 of them fatal and 1,935 causing serious injury. That makes it the 79th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 14% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 10.6 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 66% since 2000, from 994 to 339 in 2024. The M6 is the most affected road locally, with 1,119 collisions.

Figures cover collisions reported to police (STATS19) from 2000 onward; severity definitions changed over time, so treat long-range trends with care. Source: DfT STATS19, Open Government Licence v3.0.